Abstract Background Febrile seizure (FS) is the most common childhood seizures which occur in 2-5% of children. Studies about association between iron deficiency and febrile seizure have shown contradictory results. The purpose of this study was to compare the iron status of children with first febrile seizure and healthy control group. Materials and Methods In an analytic case-control ...

objective whatever the health field, compliance with the recommended practice guidelines or parameters for diagnosis by specialists and expert health professionals benefits the patients. this study was conducted to determine the whether or not these guidelines or parameters are applied to the evaluation of children with first simple febrile convulsion (sfc) in a regional teaching hospital. mate...

background: this study compares the clinical characteristics of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (mtle-hs) with those who have temporal lobe epilepsy (tle) due to other etiologies.   methods : in this retrospective study all patients with a clinical diagnosis of tle were recruited in a referral outpatient epilepsy clinic at shiraz university of medical scie...

background: febrile convulsion is one of the most common problems in children aged 5 months to 6 years. the aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of educational program on mothers for prevention of febrile seizure in children. methods: in this clinical trial study, 88 mothers were chosen who were divided in to intervention and control groups, randomly. data of control and intervent...

background febrile seizure is one of the most prevalent pediatric diseases. an essential part of the physicians’ efforts is to decreasing the parents’ stress level when they confront febrile diseases in children. objectives this study was performed to compare the effects of acetaminophen and ibuprofen on controlling fever and preventing seizures in children with febrile seizure. patients and me...

Febrile seizures are the most common seizure disorder in childhood, affecting 2-5% of children. Simple febrile seizure is defined as a short (<15 min) generalized seizure, not recurring within 24 h, that occurs during a febrile illness not resulting from an acute disease of the nervous system in a child aged between 6 months and 5 years, with no neurologic deficits and no previous afebrile seiz...

INTRODUCTION Febrile seizure is among the most common convulsion disorders in children, which strikes 2% to 5% of children between 3 to 60 months of age. Some studies have reported that iron deficiency could be a risk factor for febrile seizure. The present study was conducted to compare the rate of iron deficiency anemia in febrile children with and without seizure. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thi...

To ascertain whether LP was justifiable in cases of first simple febrile seizure, the records of128 such patients were critically reviewed in this study. It was evident that in 90% of those who received cerebrospinal fluid examination as a routine work up, lumbar puncture could have been avoided if the definition of simple febrile seizure was adhered to and the history and clinical finding...